Constricting device for increasing pressure on human and animal bodies

Abstract

This disclosure relates to a constricting device for increasing pressure inumans and animals which includes an elongated member of flexible material looped upon itself to disposed ends thereof adjacent each other after passage through a fastener housing having clamping means therein, and the housing having an opening of a size to preclude the simultaneous passage therethrough of the ends. Preferably a first of the ends is received in a socket of a size and configuration to freely pass through the opening while a second end is received in another socket having a tongue projecting in a direction toward the housing and away from the end to which it is attached to preclude the latter from being drawn through the housing upon the removal of the device from use.

I claim 
     
       1. A constricting device for increasing pressure in humans or animals comprisng an elongated member of flexible material having opposite ends, said elongated member being looped upon itself to dispose the ends thereof adjacent each other and dispose a loop remote therefrom, a fastener housing, said fastener housing having upper and lower sides, a passage through said fastener housing between said upper and lower sides, said elongated member being mounted for sliding movement in said passage with said opposite ends and loop being disposed at opposite ends of said fastener housing, said passage being of a transverse cross-section corresponding to the combined transverse cross-section of said ends, clamping means carried by said fastener housing for clamping against the end of said elongated member most closely adjacent said upper side of said fastener housing, means carried only by the end of said elongated member most closely adjacent said lower side of said fastener housing for abutting against said fastener housing to prevent said last-mentioned end from being drawn through said passage in a direction toward said loop, the end of said elongated member most closely adjacent said upper side of said fastener housing being devoid of means for abutting said fastener housing whereby only said last-mentioned end can pass completely through said passage in a direction toward said loop and said means carried by said end of said elongated member most closely adjacent said lower side of said fastener housing including a tongue having a terminal end directed downwardly and away from said lower side of said fastener housing. 
     
     
       2. The constricting device as defined in claim 1 wherein the end of said elongated member most closely adjacent said upper side of said fastener housing is received in a socket, and said socket is of a size and configuration to freely pass through said passage. 
     
     
       3. The constricting device as defined in claim 1 wherein said clamping means includes a clamping lever having a clamping end, a depressable end, and a medial portion therebetween, means pivotally mounting said clamping lever to said housing at its medial portion, and an elongated rib disposed beneath said depressable end with its longitudinal axis extending generally along the longitudinal axis of said elongated member for augmenting the free sliding of said elongated member through said housing upon the depression of said depressable end. 
     
     
       4. The constricting device as defined in claim 3 wherein said clamping end includes a rounded nose opposing the end of said elongated member most closely adjacent said upper side of said fastener housing.